Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

Changing Arctic snow cover: A review of recent developments and assessment of future needs for observations, modelling, and impacts

S Bokhorst, SH Pedersen, L Brucker, O Anisimov… - Ambio, 2016 - Springer
Snow is a critically important and rapidly changing feature of the Arctic. However, snow-
cover and snowpack conditions change through time pose challenges for measuring and …

Density, specific surface area, and correlation length of snow measured by high‐resolution penetrometry

M Proksch, H Löwe… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Precise measurements of snow structural parameters are crucial to understand the formation
of snowpacks by deposition and metamorphism and to characterize the stratigraphy for …

New northern snowpack classification linked to vegetation cover on a latitudinal mega-transect across northeastern Canada

A Royer, F Domine, A Roy, A Langlois, N Marchand… - Écoscience, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Changes in mass, extent, duration, and physical properties of snow are key elements for
studying associated climate change feedbacks in northern regions. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of snow microstructure on dual-frequency radar measurements in a tundra environment

J King, C Derksen, P Toose, A Langlois… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent advancement in the understanding of snow-microwave interactions has helped to
isolate the considerable potential for radar-based retrieval of snow water equivalent (SWE) …

[HTML][HTML] The RHOSSA campaign: multi-resolution monitoring of the seasonal evolution of the structure and mechanical stability of an alpine snowpack

N Calonne, B Richter, H Löwe, C Cetti… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The necessity of characterizing snow through objective, physically motivated parameters
has led to new model formulations and new measurement techniques. Consequently …

Snow in the sea ice system: friend or foe?

M Sturm, RA Massom - Sea ice, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Snow is a crucial and integral component of the sea ice system. It insulates the ice to retard
the rate of thermodynamic ice thickening. At the same time, it contributes directly to sea‐ice …

Response of L-Band brightness temperatures to freeze/thaw and snow dynamics in a prairie environment from ground-based radiometer measurements

A Roy, P Toose, M Williamson, T Rowlandson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land surface freeze/thaw (F/T) dynamics impact the surface energy balance, carbon fluxes,
and hydrologic processes. Recent and on-going L-Band (≈ 1.4 GHz) spaceborne missions …

Comparison of commonly-used microwave radiative transfer models for snow remote sensing

A Royer, A Roy, B Montpetit… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reviews four commonly-used microwave radiative transfer models that take
different electromagnetic approaches to simulate snow brightness temperature (TB): the …

Effect of snow microstructure variability on Ku-band radar snow water equivalent retrievals

N Rutter, MJ Sandells, C Derksen, J King… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Spatial variability in snowpack properties negatively impacts our capacity to make direct
measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) using satellites. A comprehensive data set …